Silver-eared Mesia

SCI Name:  Leiothrix argentauris
Protonym:  (Mesia] Mesia Argentauris Ind.Rev. 2 p.88
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Leiothrix
Taxonomy Code:  siemes1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Hodgson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

LEIOTHRIX
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Red-billed Leiothrix L. lutea) Gr. λειος leios  smooth, polished; θριξ thrix, τριχος trikhos  hair; "Genus, LEIOTHRIX.  Bill short, much compressed, the culmen gradually curved, notched.  Nostrils large, membranaceous; aperture linear, lateral.  Wings short, much rounded.  Tail moderate, deeply forked.  Type.—Parus furcatus, TEMM. Pl. Col.  India." (Swainson 1832); "Leiothrix Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 2 (1831), pp. 233, 490. Type, by original designation, Parus furcatus Temminck = Sylvia lutea Scopoli." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 381).   
Var. Leioptrix.   
Synon. Bahila, Calipyga, Fringilloparus, Furcuria, Mesia, Philacalyx.

argentauris
L. argentum, argenti  silver; auris  ear.

SUBSPECIES

Silver-eared Mesia (Silver-eared)
SCI Name: Leiothrix argentauris [argentauris Group]
LEIOTHRIX
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Red-billed Leiothrix L. lutea) Gr. λειος leios  smooth, polished; θριξ thrix, τριχος trikhos  hair; "Genus, LEIOTHRIX.  Bill short, much compressed, the culmen gradually curved, notched.  Nostrils large, membranaceous; aperture linear, lateral.  Wings short, much rounded.  Tail moderate, deeply forked.  Type.—Parus furcatus, TEMM. Pl. Col.  India." (Swainson 1832); "Leiothrix Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 2 (1831), pp. 233, 490. Type, by original designation, Parus furcatus Temminck = Sylvia lutea Scopoli." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 381).   
Var. Leioptrix.   
Synon. Bahila, Calipyga, Fringilloparus, Furcuria, Mesia, Philacalyx.

Silver-eared Mesia (Sumatran)
SCI Name: Leiothrix argentauris laurinae/rookmakeri
LEIOTHRIX
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Red-billed Leiothrix L. lutea) Gr. λειος leios  smooth, polished; θριξ thrix, τριχος trikhos  hair; "Genus, LEIOTHRIX.  Bill short, much compressed, the culmen gradually curved, notched.  Nostrils large, membranaceous; aperture linear, lateral.  Wings short, much rounded.  Tail moderate, deeply forked.  Type.—Parus furcatus, TEMM. Pl. Col.  India." (Swainson 1832); "Leiothrix Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 2 (1831), pp. 233, 490. Type, by original designation, Parus furcatus Temminck = Sylvia lutea Scopoli." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 381).   
Var. Leioptrix.   
Synon. Bahila, Calipyga, Fringilloparus, Furcuria, Mesia, Philacalyx.